Lucas Glover was in the second group out for round three of the Truist Championship on Saturday, alongside Wyndham Clark.
Glover has been a fierce critic of slow play on the PGA Tour recently.
And his standing on the issue was put to the test at the Truist Championship on Saturday.
Glover has been really outspoken about slow play in the past, urging the PGA Tour to ban aim point, amongst other things.
When speaking on The Lucas Glover Show, the 45-year-old outlined his plan on how to improve slow play:
- Course markings
- Distance-measuring devices
- Bunker rakers
- No honorary observers
- Scrap sign bearers
- Ban Aim Point
- Eliminate golf carts
- Drop circles
- Learn the rules
So did Glover live up to his word at Philadelphia Cricket Club this weekend?
How long it took Lucas Glover to play third round at the Truist Championship
Glover went round in 70 on day three at the Truist Championship – the same score as his playing partner Clark.
They followed Michael Kim out early on Saturday morning.
Kim actually withdrew after 12 holes of his third round, so the course was wide open for Glover and Clark to attack with speed.
And that they did.
Glover and Clark completed their third round in just 2 hours and 58 minutes – quite remarkable really in this day and age.
That is a really good effort from the six-time time PGA Tour winner, and it would be great if more players on tour moved like he does around the golf course.
Lucas Glover not happy with Tour Championship format
Glover is clearly not afraid of speaking his mind.
Earlier this week, Glover opened up on his disdain for the current Tour Championship format.
He said, “I am a little upset at myself that I have voiced my frustration with that without a solution,” Glover told Golf Channel. “I have always felt that if you have a complaint you need to offer a solution. I don’t necessarily have one.
“Something that has come to mind is maybe reward the regular season with half the bonus purse and then have a playoff for the rest of it or something.
“I do not have an answer. But what we were doing was not working, obviously. The year Scottie had last year to start only two shots ahead is ridiculous.
“The fact that any format where he was not the FedExCup champion before Atlanta started was to me crazy.
“For me he should have been given the trophy the Wednesday night before the tournament started. Gun to my head I don’t see what’s wrong with having a golf tournament with 30 guys there and play four rounds.
“But I don’t know. I don’t have an answer, I don’t think there is one. Playoffs are not suited to golf and that’s been proven as we have had to change the format so many times.”
He’s actually spot on. How could Scottie Scheffler have been that dominant last season, but still not be guaranteed winning the FedEx Cup heading into the final tournament of the year.
In fairness though, that’s how the play-offs work in American sports – sometimes the best teams from the regular season don’t win the championship.
And that is what could end up happening in golf as well, if the powers that be decide to stick with the play-off format.
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